PureTech Initiates Phase 2a Clinical Trial of LYT-300 (Oral Allopregnanolone) for the Potential Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

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Jun 21, 2023

PureTech+Health+plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) ("PureTech" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to changing the lives of patients with devastating diseases, today announced the initiation of a Phase 2a proof-of-concept clinical trial of LYT-300 (oral allopregnanolone) in healthy volunteers using a validated clinical model of anxiety. LYT-300 is PureTech’s wholly-owned therapeutic candidate for the potential treatment of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including anxiety disorders and postpartum depression (PPD). LYT-300 is an oral prodrug of allopregnanolone that was developed using PureTech’s GlyphTM platform, which harnesses the body’s natural lipid absorption and transport process to enable the oral administration of certain therapeutics that otherwise cannot be administered orally.